We welcomed a new face to the Speed board this week: Ruth Jones. She has actually been bringing her Bradfordian charms to the office for more than four years now, but her energy and drive have seen her rise to run a line of business, our new Fast-Growth Technology Markets team.

I could wax lyrical about how good Ruth is all day, but it may only increase her market value and her ego.

Instead, here are 10 things that weren’t in the blurb about her appointment:

1. Ruth’s twin sister was World Number One Thai boxer

2. Sir Alex Ferguson wrote her a letter (well, he signed it)

3. Interviewed Geoffrey Richmond, former Bradford City chairman, aged 14

4. She has a cross-shaped scar on her stomach

5. Failed her driving test for speeding

6. Given the Last Rites twice

7. Played county hockey

8. Favourite film is ’10 things I hate about you’

9. First baked a cake at the age of 29

10. Climbed Croagh Patrick (not in sandals)